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'Performances are uniformly superb and often enhanced by imaginative or comic touches. Full marks to Peter Holman and his team for this delightful ent ...'The best and most painstaking reconstruction of music from Shakespeare's theatres available on disc' (Sydney Morning Herald)» More

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Francke: Tell me, dearest, what is love?
Clora: íTis a lightning from above;
íTis an arrow, ítis a fire,
íTis a boy we call desire.
Both: íTis a grave
Gapes to have
Those poor fools that long to prove.
Francke: Tell me more: are women true?
Clora: Yes, some are, and some as you.
Some are fickle, some are strange,
Since you men taught first to change.
Both: And say troth,
Be my loath,
All do love to love anew.
Francke: Tell me more, can women grieve?
Clora: Yes, and sicken sore, but live,
And be wise, too, and delay
When they see men wise as they.
Both: Then I see
Faith will be
Never ítill they both agree.